When the news of the elimination of all four "demon kings" reached Raccoon Town, all the residents couldn't help but revel, and the village chief even said that he would hold a huge ceremony to celebrate this great victory.

The pandas took a little time to clean up the mines, and when they returned to Raccoon Town, the ceremony had already begun. I saw the bright red ribbon stretching from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, like a fire, burning up along the rugged and steep mountain road, burning into the sky and burning into people's hearts.

When they walked to the pass at the foot of the mountain, the militiamen all changed into red clothes, and when they saw them coming in the dust, they came up one by one to welcome them, and they were all smiling.

"I didn't expect your celebration to be so big!" said Raisa, surprised, "I thought it was a party or something." ”

"The so-called celebration, of course, should be larger!" The gray-haired militia captain was in excellent spirits today, looking like he was several years younger, "We haven't held a celebration for a long time!"

Reas looked inside the room and said suspiciously, "Strange, why are all the old men on duty today?"

Everyone also noticed that it was an old militiaman with three or four young militiamen who usually guarded the pass. But today, the five militiamen on duty in the pass are all old or half-old, and not a single young man.

"It's a big day for the boys, how can we waste it!" said a militiaman with several scars on his face, "anyway, we old men are useless, so we won't join in the fun." It's better to stand guard for them. ”

The traversers looked at each other in confusion, not understanding the logic of what was being said.

"On a festive day, shouldn't the old man go and rejoice first?" asked Laisa, "when we worship our ancestors, when we celebrate festivals...... I'll invite the old man. Unless you're too old to move, there's no reason why only young people can attend the festival. ”

"It's not surprising that the customs vary from place to place. Panda pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe their custom here is 'young people are welcomed first at the celebration...... What about our companions? Are they out, or are they in town?"

"Of course in town! you are our honored guests, and the best seats are reserved for you!" said the militia captain happily, "go up quickly, rest for the most important ceremony to-morrow!"

The traversers nodded their heads and said goodbye to them, making their way up the mountain road.

After walking for a while, the panda said to Raisa, "Actually, the old man does not participate in the celebration...... It's not surprising when you think about it. Their living conditions are very difficult, and the elderly are almost a burden to society. In this case, unless it is an old man with special knowledge like the village chief, the social status of the average elderly person is definitely not high. ”

Raisa sighed, "I see! They don't go to the festival, not so much because they don't want to go, but because they won't be allowed to go...... Right?"

"That's how it should be. ”

"Actually, this kind of thing is really not uncommon. "I remember watching Japanese anime before, and it was also mentioned that in some poor places, the elderly would go to the mountains to seek death by themselves, so as not to burden the children." ”

"It's an old film, what is it called the mountain festival test. Naikhardt, who was relatively older in the guild, thought for a moment and said, "When the old man is old, he will carry it to the mountains and abandon it...... The mountain was full of dead human bones, and it was almost impossible to find a stone without dead human bones......"

As he spoke, he sighed: "I never believed it before, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor like this." When I was fooled by pandas and them, I went to participate in the summer border aid activities, and those poor families in remote mountainous areas were not so poor that they had to abandon the elderly......

"There is a similar scene in the twenty-four filial pieties, but the child is buried alive for the sake of the elderly. Panda sighed, "But we all know that the twenty-four filial pieties are made up to deceive people." How could it be possible to abandon a child in order to feed the elderly? How could it be possible to dig gold into a pit dug in order to bury a child alive? The poverty and hardship of ancient times are really unimaginable to us modern people!"

"Yes, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes today, I wouldn't have imagined that there would be a celebration where the elderly are not welcome......" Reas sighed, "This is not a blind date meeting!"

"Don't say it, I'm in a bad mood, woo, no!" Correnne protested, wagging his tail.

Everyone shook their heads and sighed, no longer talking about this heavy topic, but instead discussing the harvest this time.

"I heard from them that I have collected the 'Demon King's Heart' from the Treants. Panda said, "So, it seems that we can come up with a material for the 'Enlightened Heart Ritual'?"

"It should be possible, Xingzhao and Alfien have carried a lot of precious magic materials, and the accessories are definitely enough. In terms of ingredients, the 'Tears of Sighs' are already there, and what is missing is the 'Demon King's Heart'. "But...... Who's going to be the first to receive the ceremony?"

"You should let the remote ones go first, improve the perception, and the bonus effect on the remote profession is the best. Panda said.

"The priest can too, and increasing perception can increase the effect of the priest's spells. Reas said.

Panda shook his head: "The spell of the priesthood, in fact, is just like that, it is not worth spending the precious materials that are currently only one to improve." However, in the future, if we can open a stable portal and find enough high-level monsters, we can save up resources and get ourselves a 'Clear-Heart Ritual' to do ......."

Of course, as we all know, this "future" is not visible for the time being.

Xingzhao and Alfiin have not been able to determine the spatial coordinates of the Western Continent World and establish a stable portal until now. Even if the spatial coordinates are determined, there is a question mark over whether the portal can be built smoothly.

Those bosses in this world may have parallel goods in them, but they don't seem to be brain-dead. There are not many of them, but they are distributed all over this rather vast world, and they are not gathered together.

Once you feel the signs of the appearance of the portal, they will probably swarm to it, right? At that time, what everyone will face is not one or two bosses, but a dozen or even dozens of bosses, and everything you have seen and not seen in the game may appear.

With the manpower in front of you, can you persist in that kind of scene, and hold on until the portal is completed and a large army arrives to support?

No one has faith.

So...... Perhaps this Enlightenment Ritual is the greatest gain that the traversers can get from this adventure.

Therefore, it is important to think carefully and discuss repeatedly to determine the most suitable person!